page_title: Whangamarino railway station
section_title: Incident
hierarchical_section_title: Whangamarino railway station / History / Incident
caption_attribution_description: English: 1907 train between Wairangi and Whangamarino
context_page_description: Whangamarino was a flag station on the North Island Main Trunk line, in the Waikato District of New Zealand, 49 mi south of Auckland. It was 598.24 km north of Wellington, 6.19 km south of Amokura, 6.72 km north of Te Kauwhata and 7 m above sea level.
context_section_description: Three passengers in a sleeping car died in May 1914, when an express from Wellington passed a broken signal in fog and crashed into a goods train. A porter was charged with manslaughter, but acquitted.
caption: 1907 train stranded between Wairangi and Whangamarino by floods
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